2 Corinthians 6:4

Paul commends himself as God's servant through great endurance amid afflictions, hardships, and distresses. Faithful ministry is proven in patient suffering.

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• 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
• 2 Cor 4:8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
• 1 Cor 4:11–12Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
• Rom 8:35–36Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Rom 5:3–4Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
• Phil 4:11–12Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
• Rev 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 12:12Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
• Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• 1 Cor 4:1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• 2 Tim 3:10–12But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
• Jas 5:7–10Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• 1 Th 3:2–3and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• 2 Tim 2:24The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
• Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
• 2 Cor 11:9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
• 2 Tim 1:8Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
• Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
• Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
• Isa 61:6But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.
• 1 Th 2:3–11For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
• Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
• 1 Cor 9:11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Rom 16:10Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• Rom 14:18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
• 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• 2 Cor 4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Rom 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Joel 1:9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
• Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
• 2 Cor 7:11For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

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